"This is the entrance. I'm sorry we can't move forward. You need to walk the rest of the way alone."
In the center of the dome of the Royal Court, void battleships of different shapes were guided by the Royal Guards into the Qinjian Channel. They looked at them with eyes mixed with envy and reverence, as they watched each and every one of them, because they had eliminated the 'extreme creatures', were able to be conquered by the Great Emperor. The summoned heroes watched as they slowly entered the 'inner circle' shrouded in the halo of the nebula's light cluster.
"Meet the Emperor..." They sighed and watched each other's shadow gradually disappear in the nebula: "When will I be able to have such a day?"
No one heard the guards talking to themselves.
Enter the inner circle, pass through the arch made of the corona, step into the hall made of nebulae, and then walk up the countless steps of rainbow light. It is an acceleration channel composed of materialized magic and ether, but this channel can only be clearly seen. The entire area is hundreds of kilometers long—everything in the inner circle of the Royal Court is so grand that it feels like a dream.
He didn't need to exert any force at all, and the surging ether current pushed Elma and Krelle forward rapidly. After thirty minutes, they ended their short journey and came to a huge, luminous pure place. The top of the white platform.
This high platform is a nearly cone with a flat top and a narrow top. It is about thousands of kilometers high. If it were placed on a planet, it would be an extremely amazing structure that breaks through the sky. However, because it is placed on the dome of the royal court, , it is located around the clone of Emperor Amos, so the impression of this obviously extremely majestic high platform is not much better than that of a needle, and is almost negligible.
The top of the high platform is a densely packed rune formation with a radius of about seven kilometers. It started to activate after Elma entered, creating a regular semicircular energy shield - whether it was the high platform or a series of previous ones. In fact, these steps are not a waste of time. They are necessary measures to prevent other Amos people from being harmed when they are close to the emperor.
If you don't do this, I'm afraid the beings under the legend will not be able to get close to the emperor at all, let alone communicate with him.
"Just wait here?"
Watching Elma come to the center of the rune formation, fixing herself, and preparing to withstand the next impact, the human captain felt uneasy. He was nervous and expressed doubts about this, because all this was not what Krelle had imagined. no the same.
He originally thought that he and Elma would be in a hall, waiting for a spiritual thought from the clone of Emperor Amos to come and communicate, just like local officials meeting the emperor of the empire. But now, he realized that the Amos people are not human beings. They are genuine alien beings, an alien race separated by countless galaxies. Their culture, customs and even living habits are completely different from humans. The reason why I can communicate smoothly with Elma is because Elma is an alien among aliens.
For a race that once used mountains as its territory, and whose strength was determined by who occupied the higher mountains, when meeting a more powerful being, they must build the highest and most conspicuous platform to give way to the stronger ones higher up. ', can barely see myself, instead of bothering the other person to bow his head.
-The strong will not look down at the weak, they will only communicate with visible beings.
This is the culture of the Amos people.
Elma didn't reply to Kreiler's question.
Because 'he' is already here.
On the high platform, the hazy nebula and mist began to tremble, and a huge perfect circular golden cyclone began to appear above it. This cyclone has a diameter of more than 15,000 kilometers, and there are obvious faults every few thousand kilometers. This makes it look like a giant, moving eye.
As the giant eye that could swallow a planet took shape, an unpredictable sense of pressure filled the entire space. It could be seen that the semicircular shield on the high platform began to crackle, and the pale silver arc was violently above it. The flashes seemed to be resisting some extremely powerful attack, which even caused the entire platform to begin to shake slightly. However, due to the protection of the shield, Elma and Crelle did not feel the pressure, but they both had dry mouths. Looking at all this with dry tongue, I didn't dare to express my anger.
It can be seen that the giant eye is turning in its direction, gradually aiming at the high platform - in front of it, the high platform in the void thousands of kilometers high is just a small needle standing up, but at least it can be called something 'almost'.
"Elma—General Instance No. 19090763."
The giant eyes were aimed at the high platform, and at the translucent void battleship in the center of the high platform - and instantly, a suffocating sense of mental oppression swept through Elma's spiritual world like a tsunami flood.
If she hadn't been blessed with a mental protection spell, Elma felt that her soul would have been severely damaged in an instant, but even with the protection, she could barely hear the information contained in the spiritual torrent.
"Thinking individual, universal individual, fighting individual... A very good resume. You are an Amosian with outstanding talents. If it weren't for the slack in recent years, you could become a general."
The information conveyed by the giant eyes is straightforward and devoid of any emotion, just like a human repeating information about the height of an ant. But in the second half of the words, there was a hint of intriguing emotion in the message: "You killed an 'extreme individual' in the gathering area and protected many thinking individuals from retreating safely. You did a good job. However, the Due to the fusion and evolution, the extreme individual quickly reached the point of being a 'titled general' in the general sense. He was able to easily prey on planets and even barely survived a supernova explosion."
"It's very abnormal, Elma. With your strength, even a severely injured extreme individual cannot be defeated. Even if the opponent's thinking center fails, you have exploded with explosive power far beyond normal, and you should not be able to win so easily. .You definitely cannot defeat the opponent by relying on your own strength."
The giant eyes rotated and stared at the center of the high platform: "You have the smell of Mrs. McLord on you, ah, there is actually a larvae of Mrs. McLord. I feel it, has he stretched his hand here? "
Krelle swallowed nervously, and even touched his belt subconsciously, but because he was too nervous, he couldn't even secrete saliva, and could only retching... The pressure brought by this giant eye was too much It's terrifying. Although the pressure of the Grand Marshal and the Seven Gods is equally terrifying, or even worse, when facing ordinary people, they will try their best to suppress this pressure.
Facing Emperor Amos, who had obviously discovered Joshua's methods, his legs were not weak - because if they were soft, he would not be able to escape. But even if he was given a dozen more legs, would Krelle still be able to escape? Thinking of Elma's previous analysis and explanation, and the fact that he and Elma had no chance to avoid this meeting from beginning to end, Krelle could only forcefully suppress the uneasiness in his heart and stay in Elma's body. Not a word was spoken.
But the great golden eye of the storm, which was distracted by the Great Emperor's clone, did not say much in this regard. He just said lightly: "Elma, tell Mrs. Mike Rowe that cowards are the ones who are playing tricks behind the scenes. He can take the fleet with him. I welcome him to attack my world and look forward to fighting him again."
Both Elma and Krelle could hear a hint of 'expectation' in this vast spiritual torrent, and even feel a little 'excitement' to get rid of boredom. All in all, the other party's emotions were completely different from the expected 'anger' and 'indifference', which was extremely puzzling.
For Kreiler, he was just relieved - although he didn't know why, it seemed that Emperor Amos was not as cruel and murderous as expected, and actually skipped this matter.
But after Elma was in a trance, she understood why Emperor Amos had this attitude.
—Would you be angry because someone tempted an ant in your ant nest with candy
of course not. No matter how you think about it, he has earned it, right? Even if there is some back-up, it's just an ant. The worst thing is not to let the other party know the information about the ant nest. Even if you want to be angry, you will be angry at the person, not the ant.
Especially this seduced ant, which gained a lot of strength after eating sugar and even helped eradicate pests in a nest - what is there to be angry about? I wish I could have more. I really want to thank this diverse group of friends for their selfless help.
Simple cannot be simpler ideas.
But it makes people feel unwilling and angry.
-For the betrayer, if the betrayal itself cannot make the betrayed feel any pain, then what is the value of her rebellion? Even though she had already guessed Emperor Amos's thinking pattern, Elma still felt extremely humiliated.
betray? Is it worthy of the weak
The confusion, humiliation, anger and unwillingness that flashed through Elma's heart at this moment exceeded the sum of the past decades, and the source of all this came from her own powerlessness. She really would rather Amos the Great put her It would be better to kill him than to be ignored like this.
Perhaps only by reaching the level of Mycroft's civilization, the Grand Marshal in Kreler's mouth, can the Emperor take him seriously, and even personally send avatars to test and fight, showing anger and other emotions.
The giant golden eye naturally didn't care about Elma's emotions, or in other words, he noticed it, but it didn't matter, and even found it interesting. In short, after confirming that Elma did have Joshua-related powers, Emperor Amos He was distracted and said rather casually: "Whether you relied on your own strength or not, in short, you eradicated an extreme creature, which is very interesting and deserves a reward. Tell me what you want."
He generously gave a share of his prayers: "As long as it does not conflict with other people's wishes, I will satisfy you."
Elma opened her mouth, and the void battleship was trembling slightly.
"Why… "
The time has finally come - I can finally communicate with the Emperor face to face, and I can finally realize my long-held wish.
Even if the other person is just a distraction, even if the other person has never looked at her directly, at this moment, Elma still feels extremely nervous - so she can only use a bitter and unwavering voice, He said softly: "Why don't you, Great Emperor, take action to eliminate these extreme viruses?"
The giant golden eye of the storm turned, as if it heard something interesting.
But at this moment, Elma raised her head, forcing all her observation organs to look up into the giant golden eyes. Her tone began to return to normal: "Great Emperor, the extreme virus has ravaged hundreds of worlds. , even several times more than this number. As far as I know, tens of billions of Amos people have died during this period of time - in less than three days."
"I... I felt it from the strong man from another world. His power can expel the extreme virus and prevent it from spreading. In the border star field, I witnessed this power. It really swept away all the extreme viruses around it, making it impossible for them to spread. The plague dissipates... Great King, you, you can do it, right? As long as you are willing, even the strong men from other worlds cannot compare, and you will be able to easily eliminate all extreme viruses in our country!"
Elma's tone was excited. If she had hands, she must have squeezed her palms tightly and squeezed them hard enough to bleed. In her body, Crelle could feel that Elma had already Beyond life and death, she simply did not deny even Joshua's existence.
But this excitement is meaningless.
"Is this your wish? To eradicate the ultimate virus."
The message conveyed by the giant golden eyes is very calm: "A bit greedy, Elma, but your appetite is quite interesting."
"Okay, I allow it."
The easy agreement made Elma unable to react for a moment. The tentacles of the Void Battleship echoed in mid-air blankly, as if she didn't hear clearly.
But soon, a message with a bit of regret came from the golden giant eye.
"Originally, I wanted to see how many people in the royal court have this qualification and can push it to the limit. After all, it is the owner of that voice. What it said is quite interesting... Is it the last hope? If it were not a critical period, I would really want to see it. .”
At this time, Elma was still confused.
—Great Emperor, agreed
Just like that, easily, without any resistance, easily, with almost no hesitation, he agreed
He can do it! He can totally do it! Contrary to what he thought before, the emperor might not be able to do it. This matter is a piece of cake for him!
He really can do it if he wants to. The reason why he leaves the extreme virus alone and allows the extreme creatures to destroy... is because he doesn't want to do it!
This was the last straw that broke Elma's heart.
"No, Emperor... why?"
In a dreamy tone, she asked the giant golden eyes that seemed to want to disappear in disbelief: "You can obviously do it... Why didn't you expel the extreme virus earlier, instead of allowing hundreds of billions of Amos people to be like this?" The death of value?”
Recalling the eroded skeletons he saw in many plague-infected places, there were combatants, researchers, and naturally civilians among them. They are either raising children and nurturing the next generation, or they are working hard to contribute to the great cause of the royal court.
They all have families, lives, careers, friendships, independent personalities, small or great aspirations and ambitions, and hopes and expectations for the future.
But they all fell into yesterday and today, and could no longer see tomorrow.
"They are all your people, Amos people who respect and worship you!"
The giant golden eyes paused, turned, and stared at the excited Elma interestingly, as if staring at a butterfly flapping its wings.
"It says that this is the final war, and a huge disaster is about to occur, cutting off the road to the source."
Juyan seemed to be talking to himself, and he did not have any emotional changes because of Elma's question: "I feel that in the face of a disaster that even that voice thinks is 'huge', you will all be destroyed." , in this case, being infected with the extreme virus is nothing more than dying earlier, not to mention that there will be a few interesting extreme individuals in it."
"What's more, the extreme virus has no effect on commander-level creatures. It can just wipe out a few weak ones without having to do it yourself, which I think is very convenient."
It can be regarded as condescending to answer Elma's question, just like humans would pause for a while because of the butterflies flying on the roadside and curiously watch each other's flight. Emperor Amos smiled distractedly: "Speaking of which, you kill The extreme individual that died was really a powerful one. If it hadn't been hit hard by a supernova, it would soon go to the star to absorb stellar matter and evolve, becoming a star eater. There were few like this in the entire royal court. An extreme individual of this level, I originally wanted to see if there would be existences above the Star Eater as the plague spread."
This curious smile and profound indifference made Elma unable to breathe for a moment.
She finally understood that Emperor Amos's nature might be worse than she had imagined before.
"Could it be that the existence of the Amos people is just a tool to satisfy your interest and curiosity..." Elma groaned. She felt that the organs in her body were spasming, rejecting this reality: "Thousands of people Millions, billions of people, are they just a number..."
"if not."
The giant golden eyes were puzzled, but after thinking for a while, he continued: "Of course, it's not that bad. You are living creatures after all, and I quite like you, especially an interesting individual like you. Although Amo It’s rare for a Si person to have just one, but after all, one or two will appear from time to time.”
"But to be honest, apart from interesting individuals like you, the other Amos people are indeed of little value."
I don't know whether it is tolerance or cruelty, but the golden giant eyes smiled and said: "I'm just an Amos person. Any clone of mine can instantly create hundreds of millions or billions. Hundreds of billions are no problem. It doesn't even take the mass of a planet. Yes, it’s a very easy thing. Speaking of which, your ancestors are the Amos people I created. Because they are very perfect and unlike the previous ones, they have not been updated for a long time.”
Noticing Elma who seemed to want to say something, her giant golden eyes easily read the other person's thoughts: "The Amos people from before?"
"Oh, it's ruined because it's too ugly."
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